Twigs, sticks and random squiggles

I have been pondering more abstract lampshades, roughly landscape lampshades but more about light and texture than hills and glens. However, I keep being distracted by birds and strange animals. I believe it is time to out my latent cravings and get chaotic.

This afternoon’s walk to clear my head of product listing madness also turned out to be inspirational. Anna and Libor are cutting down and stacking willow so that we can use it for wattle and daub partition walls, but the twigs, the hues, the chaos in order ….aah, so beautiful.

So on my return I embarked on a bunch of samples. Watch this space for a whole new concept.

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Posted by:mogwaii

Born: 13th March 1969 in Edinburgh
Star sign: Pisces
Where do I live? An beautiful island called Lismore
Who with? I live with my gorgeous man - Yorick, and my beautiful boys Ruben (currently 14) and Tom (10) and we also have cat poppy, cat Bashy and cat Spyro.
What do I do there? Water veggies in the polytunnel, loads of mopping up, picking up clothes, cooking and washing dishes. The rest of the time I'm in a blissfull state in my studio making things out of wool and designing the next must have (in my head!) and a lot of cycling to and fro
My favourite Books: Right now...empowerment books like "The power of now" and "The Secret", but also John Fowles "The Magus" and "The kite runner" and I love the "Tao of Poo"
My Favourite films: Babettes feast, Wings of desire and The colour of Pomegranites.
My favourite music: Bach cello suites for designing, Dolly parton for making (especially her album Little Sparrow), Teddy Thompson and loads of other stuff!
What did I do before moving to Lismore?
* Went to school in Edinburgh (South Morningside primary then St. Mary's music school and then George Watson's)
* Went to Brazil for a year, fell in love, learnt Portuguese and spun a lot of wool
* Studied foundation in visual arts in Manchester poly and then went on to study BA Hons in textiles at Goldsmith's college
* Made felt hats, sold them at Camden market and then eventualy Liberties and had Ruben in the midst of it all - moved to Pathhead
* Tom came along and I stopped making hats. sung lots of Jazz, taught Brazilian and samba singing, recorded an album and started singing with La Boum
* Tom went to school and I set up Mogwaii
* Moved here in 2006
There you go!!
xx Sarah
(from left) Ruben, me and Tom
(from left) Ruben, me and Tom